Grocery Stores on Hilton Head Island

The easiest grocery delivery on Hilton Head is the kind that is finished before you get there. These four local services take your order days or weeks ahead, shop it, arrange entry with your rental company or owner, and stock the fridge and pantry so dinner is ready the evening you arrive. Order early for a Saturday check-in: the busiest weekends fill up.

To do it yourself, the stores deliver too. Publix delivers and offers curbside pickup through Instacart; both Harris Teeters have ExpressLane pickup and delivery through their partners; Kroger and Walmart take pickup and delivery orders in their apps; and The Fresh Market offers curbside pickup and delivery from its site. The Piggly Wiggly is in-store only.

For property managers and owners: a pre-arrival stocking service is the most-asked-for extra on a Saturday changeover. Low Country Grocery Runner arranges access directly with rental companies, and Groceries Ahead builds a page for an owner’s property. Link this page in your booking confirmation or welcome email so guests can order before they drive down.

For fish and shrimp straight off the boat, the island’s seafood markets beat any supermarket counter, and the Piggly Wiggly at Coligny is the one that doubles as a grocery store. For a convenience stop, there are general stores at the beach in Sea Pines and Palmetto Dunes. For wine and spirits, see our Hilton Head liquor stores guide: most share a shopping centre with a supermarket.

No: there is no Costco on Hilton Head Island or in Bluffton. The nearest Costco is in Pooler, Georgia, near the Savannah airport, about an hour from the island. For bulk shopping closer by, Sam’s Club in Bluffton is at 14 Bluffton Road, just over the bridge (membership required).

There is no Trader Joe’s either, on the island or in Bluffton or Savannah. The Whole Foods at Shelter Cove closed in August 2024, so for organic and specialty food the island has The Fresh Market and Lowcountry Produce. Food Lion opens in November 2026 at 93 Mathews Drive, the old Sam’s Club building in Port Royal Plaza, and Aldi has Town approval for a store at Sea Turtle Marketplace on Mathews Drive. Until then, both are in Bluffton.

The grocery stores near Hilton Head, SC are in Bluffton, on US 278 between the bridge and I-95. Bluffton has two Publix, two Kroger and two Food Lion stores, a Walmart, an Aldi and Sam’s Club, plus El Super Internacional for Latin groceries. Our Bluffton grocery stores guide has every one, and stopping there on the way in avoids the island traffic on a Saturday. Drivers coming off I-95 also pass the Walmart in Hardeeville.

Most rentals change over on Saturday, so Saturday afternoon is the busiest time in every supermarket on Hilton Head Island, and shoppers report shelves running thin until the early-week restock. Shop on the way in, in Bluffton, or go after 8 p.m.: Walmart, Kroger and the Park Plaza Harris Teeter stay open until 11 p.m. every day, and the Island Crossing Publix until 10.

Pick the store by where you are staying. In Sea Pines, Forest Beach or Shipyard, use the Island Crossing Publix, the Park Plaza Harris Teeter or the Piggly Wiggly at Coligny. In Palmetto Dunes or Shelter Cove, Kroger and The Fresh Market are closest. On the north end, in Port Royal, Hilton Head Plantation or Indigo Run, there are Walmart, the Festival Centre Publix and the Main Street Harris Teeter.

Hilton Head grocery stores sell beer and wine seven days a week, Sunday included. Spirits are sold only in liquor stores, which close at 7 p.m. and all day Sunday, so buy them on the way in.